Police Brutality “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, we shouldn’t be silent about things that are really important or matter. Police brutality is real and we shouldn’t be quiet about it. Innocent lives are taken and people are injured. Police usually aren’t being convicted or punished for the action they took. Many people around the world deal with this not only the United States of America. This is a major conflict that needs to be solved. The society is being negatively affected by the police brutality. People are injured, harmed, or killed by police and they were not even armed with a weapon. Citizens should not be mistreated, for they are not capable of severely …show more content…
Even the justice system believes, as if they shouldn’t be convicted. “The legal system doesn’t like second guessing police officers because they know the job is hard and violent and they have to keep bad guys off the streets ” ( Stinson para. 3). For a regular person convicted of a crime they are more harshly faced then police who gets a free pass. Instead of taking responsibility of the situation, they claim they did not do anything even when there is clear evidence. This is their job and shouldn’t be let by from pity. “The legal system gives the police the benefit of the doubt, but doesn’t give it to the average citizen,” ( Jaros para. 17). They are just like an average us if we brutally hurt someone we would surely have charges pressed against us what we did. “justice system designed to insulate police actions resulting in death” (Ali, Samee, Sherman para. one). In addition, the system is protecting them even though it may be obvious that they did the crime. “officers who shot Miller were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the local District Attorney but were fired by the police chief “( “Police” para. 15). It took the chief to fire them since the system will not fire them. They cleared them from shooting an innocent